August 9, 2025.

Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegzith reposted a video in which Christian nationalist pastors expressed their opposition to the idea of women voting.

I would like to see this nation being a Christian nation,

and I would like this world to be a Christian world,

said Christian nationalist Doug Wilson.

In his repost of the video,

Hegseth wrote,

All of Christ for All of Life.

But the government of the United States is not and never has been

based in Christianity. In his 1785 memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments,

Framer of the Constitution James Madison explained that what was at stake in the separation of church and state was not just religion,

but also representative government itself. The establishment of one religion over others attacked a fundamental, unalienable human right,

that of conscience. If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience,

they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw

representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants. The United States of America

is based not on religion, but on the law.

The country's founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, which establish the principle that all people are created equal,

and the U.S. Constitution, which is gradually expanded since it was first written, increasingly recognizing the equal rights of all Americans.

The Constitution didn't expand on its own.

Since the time colonists first began to contemplate

creating their own country, individuals have worked

step by step to create an inclusive democracy.

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